David Cameron needs to reconnect to the ordinary voter, says senior backbencher
By Julie Henry The Telegraph, UK A senior Conservative backbencher has urged David Cameron to reconnect to the ordinary voter to tackle a crisis of governance in Britain. Bernard Jenkins, the MP for Harwich and North Essex, warned against an…
Ogier Fiduciary Services Expands Global Network into Luxembourg
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands and Luxembourg – Ogier Cayman announced Thursday (7) the expansion into Luxembourg by its Group fiduciary services practice augmenting its already- established offering in corporate, fund and private wealth administration services. The Ogier Group successfully opened…
Sean Penn and Other Hollywood Elite Worshipped Chavez
By Bill Hoffmann, Newsmax A host of Hollywood A-listers have rushed to support Hugo Chavez over the years — the most glaring example of which was Sean Penn. The Oscar-winning actor Penn continuously praised Chavez, saying he generously helped his…
Can The Papal Election Be Hacked?
Can The Papal Election Be Hacked? Not Likely: They Use Publicly Hand-Counted Paper Ballots February 25th, 2013 2:39 pm Brad Friedman National Memo Originally posted at The Brad Blog With another papal election coming up, one might wonder how the…
BBC Caribbean: How it started and finished
It started during World War Two with Calling the West Indies for servicemen calling home. By the 1950s, the programme Caribbean Voices allowed producers the room to work for the BBC and write their early novels. In the 1960s and…
Markets rally, but investors look beyond the Brics
By Jamie Robertson Presenter, BBC World News It’s been quite a January: the best since 1989 for the FTSE, the Dow over 14,000, the S&P 500 over 1,500. Even the poor old Nikkei has risen 7% this year on hopes…
Costly FCC guilty of ‘regulation without representation,’ says group
Posted by Chris Woodward (American Family News) Americans are shelling out more than $140 billion each year just to remain in compliance with the countless regulations being pumped out by the FCC, making that agency one of the costliest in…
The End of Cheap Airfare
By Matthew Yglesias, Slate The US Airways/American merger will mean fewer flights, higher prices, and worse service. But that’s OK. Time to shed a tear into your tiny plastic cups of tomato juice, because the merger between US Airways and…
Mars Curiosity rover put into ‘safe mode’ after glitch
Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has been put into “safe mode” after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files. The robot, which is analysing rock samples on the Red Planet, is now running from a back-up computer. Nasa engineers are looking…
US HIV baby ‘cured’ by early drug treatment
A baby girl in the US born with HIV appears to have been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, doctors say. The Mississippi child is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off medication for about a…
